What is your Mount Rushmore for Syracuse sports moments you've experienced?

[FreakTalksAboutSU]

I tweeted this but thought it may make for good discussion here. I know we asked in the past about individual people in regards to your own Syracuse Mt. Rushmore...but what about moments? If you had to isolate 4 Syracuse sports moments that you experienced in one fashion or another...ie, since you began following the team in some fashion.

What is your Mt. Rushmore for Syracuse moments you personally experienced? It could have been on TV, in person, whatever, just during your random (as opposed to years or decades prior).

For me, the top 3 are slam dunks. In no particular order they are

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!

The 4th was trickier. 6 OTs is absolutely worth consideration. As was Gillon. The Allen Griffin game (St. John's, MSG) was a sneaky contender for me on a personal level, but i think it's too personal and relatively insignificant a memory to belong on here for me. The 2022 Soccer title SHOULD be on here but I am just not a big enough soccer fan. If I didn't watch the majority of the game live it really can't count for me personally.

Ultimately, the Final 4 that I landed on, and in large part to add a contemporary event that happened to be huge...

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!
- Cuse over Clemson football 2017

Curious to see how the Mt Rushmores may change based on era people began following the team.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

1987 Football vs WV
2009 LAX Championship vs Cornell
2003 Basketball vs Kansas
6 OT.

 

[UpstateSM]

- Football over Clemson in the Dome
- Virginia comeback in the Elite 8
- GMac BET game winner against Cincy
- Sitting behind our bench in Death Valley this fall when Jahad Carter returned the fumble for a tudder. Everything about that was just so cool.

 

[Shenexon]

JB's national championship
1987 WVU
1992 Marvin Graves WVU brawl
1984 win over Nebraska

 

[Bayside44]

-2003
-1993 Lax Championship
-Clemson 2017
-Duke 2014

 

[djorange1989]

2003 vs Kansas
2009 6 OT U Conn
1987 WVU football
2014 Duke Dome hoops game

 

[OrangeDW]

- The buzzer going off for the 2003 championship.

- Wallace’s game winner against Georgia in the ‘96 tournament.

- McNabb to Brominski to beat VT in ‘98.

- Sherman Douglas breakaway reverse dunk in OT to put the finishing touches on Georgetown in his last home game. And because this game rarely stays on YouTube for long, here’s that play…

 

[Stevenson]

2009 Lax Championship comeback vs Cornell( in person)
2003 bball Natty (went to 4 of 6 games)
1985 SU 65 Georgetown 63 ( my first game of the rivalry)
1987 vs WVU (senior year)

 

[HOFCeluck]

81-78

The 6OT game

Beating Clemson in 2017

Beating Pitt 2/1/03

 

[OrangeDW]

Also, this is possibly the most exciting 6-0 run in the history of western civilization….

 

[ar inj]

2003 New Orleans

6 overtimes

1964 Floyd Little 5 touchdowns vs Kansas and Gayle Sayers

SU soccer over Indiana on PKs in 2022 nat'l championship

 

[grepal]

I tweeted this but thought it may make for good discussion here. I know we asked in the past about individual people in regards to your own Syracuse Mt. Rushmore...but what about moments? If you had to isolate 4 Syracuse sports moments that you experienced in one fashion or another...ie, since you began following the team in some fashion.

What is your Mt. Rushmore for Syracuse moments you personally experienced? It could have been on TV, in person, whatever, just during your random (as opposed to years or decades prior).

For me, the top 3 are slam dunks. In no particular order they are

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!

The 4th was trickier. 6 OTs is absolutely worth consideration. As was Gillon. The Allen Griffin game (St. John's, MSG) was a sneaky contender for me on a personal level, but i think it's too personal and relatively insignificant a memory to belong on here for me. The 2022 Soccer title SHOULD be on here but I am just not a big enough soccer fan. If I didn't watch the majority of the game live it really can't count for me personally.

Ultimately, the Final 4 that I landed on, and in large part to add a contemporary event that happened to be huge...

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!
- Cuse over Clemson football 2017

Curious to see how the Mt Rushmores may change based on era people began following the team.

Hoops winning it all.
6 OT game.
Beating Carolina in Elite 8
Three OT game v. Nova in Big East final at the Dome.
Adding a personal favorites that were not "big" games,
Last game at Archbold
First football game in the Dome
Trying out for a walk on position in hoops. I guess I was not tall enough.

 

[SWC75]

Following FB since 1961, Basketball since 1966 and anything there is bigger than SU lacrosse, the Crunch or the Chiefs/Mets.

1) NCAA basketball title (Hak's block)
2) 1987 West Virginia (11-0)
3) 1987 Penn State (blew out hated rival and defending national champs who had beaten us 16 times in a row)
4) 6 OT game

 

[cuse62]

BB title
Lax title against Cornell
6 ot
pick any Dungey highlights

 

[MadNY3]

I tweeted this but thought it may make for good discussion here. I know we asked in the past about individual people in regards to your own Syracuse Mt. Rushmore...but what about moments? If you had to isolate 4 Syracuse sports moments that you experienced in one fashion or another...ie, since you began following the team in some fashion.

What is your Mt. Rushmore for Syracuse moments you personally experienced? It could have been on TV, in person, whatever, just during your random (as opposed to years or decades prior).

For me, the top 3 are slam dunks. In no particular order they are

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!

The 4th was trickier. 6 OTs is absolutely worth consideration. As was Gillon. The Allen Griffin game (St. John's, MSG) was a sneaky contender for me on a personal level, but i think it's too personal and relatively insignificant a memory to belong on here for me. The 2022 Soccer title SHOULD be on here but I am just not a big enough soccer fan. If I didn't watch the majority of the game live it really can't count for me personally.

Ultimately, the Final 4 that I landed on, and in large part to add a contemporary event that happened to be huge...

- The 1996 Win over Georgia in the NCAA Tourney
- The Block
- BROMINSKI!
- Cuse over Clemson football 2017

Curious to see how the Mt Rushmores may change based on era people began following the team.

The Block
Don to Rob Moore vs Penn St
Tying Cornell in Lax with :03 in the NC
Pearl half courter vs BC

 

[dwilmont44]

Also, this is possibly the most exciting 6-0 run in the history of western civilization….

That fastbreak finishing with the alley oop. Please let us see that again soon.

 

[OrangeDW]

That fastbreak finishing with the alley oop. Please let us see that again soon.

Yeah, that passing on that was amazing. Just beautiful basketball.

 

[djcon57]

2003 National Championship
2003 vs Pitt at home
McNabb to Brominski
Random personal one: Bahamas in 15-16, Without a doubt the one of the best weeks in my life.

 

[Scott11]

- The buzzer going off for the 2003 championship.

- Wallace’s game winner against Georgia in the ‘96 tournament.

- McNabb to Brominski to beat VT in ‘98.

- Sherman Douglas breakaway reverse dunk in OT to put the finishing touches on Georgetown in his last home game. And because this game rarely stays on YouTube for long, here’s that play…

In my vast experience, the dome has never been louder or happier.

 

[NineOneSeven]

Born in 1990.

Syracuse over Kansas for the title
Syracuse over Clemson in 2017 (football)
Syracuse over Virginia in 2016
Syracuse over UConn 6OT

Honorary mention to Syracuse beating Cornell in 2009, listening on a radio at the beach.

I listed these before reading any other replies. Unsurprisingly I see a lot of overlap.

 

[OptimusOtto]

Student from 2012 - 16, will keep it limited to that:
- Malachi 3 over Brogdon
- CJ dunk on Otto Porter in OT of BET semis
- Buzzer going off for 1st home Duke ACC game & becoming #1
- Ennis buzzer beater at Pitt

 

[stuckinbig11]

2003 NC
6OT
beating Purdue and Joe Barry Carroll for my birthday present
McNabb and the guys totally whipping Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was there.

 

[Scott11]

Great question
-Sherman reverse jam to clinch Georgetown win
-national championship
-comeback versus Oklahoma state
-Virginia elite 8

 

[kcsu]

Too many to list but here a few.
75 elite 8 kstate win to make final 4
Owens wv win
National champs 03
6 ot game

 

[SWC75]

No 'wrong' answers here. If that's you're top four, that's your top four. But make sure you look at the other posts to make sure you don't skip something.